News from Mathnasium of Santa Clara

Word Problem Wednesday: The Birthday Candle Challenge

Dec 26, 2018

🎵 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you... 🎵

How old is Barb? Sometimes it’s just not proper to ask someone how old they are. Luckily, we have birthday cakes specifically designed to let you know how old someone is...with candles! You don’t have to go to a math tutor center to count candles, but we think it’s more fun to serve a little challenge along with your birthday cake.

Take a look at this week’s word problem challenge. You’ll need to use your elementary math skills such as fractions, decimals, addition, subtraction and multiplication. Take your time working it out. And be sure to check back tomorrow for the solution!

🎂 Question: Barb’s birthday cake has 1 more candle than the number of years she has been alive. If 1/2 of the candles are blue, 1/3 of the candles are green, and the remaining 4 candles are yellow, then how old is Barb?

My daughter loves going to Mathnasium. She wants to be ahead of everyone in her class. She's developed confidence with her Math subject. Thank you Ms Emma, Ms Brooke and to all the wonderful instructors.

The Mathnasium at Rivermark, Santa Clara has a really good reward systems to motivate kids. This is really helpful since my son is not very interested in Math. The directors, Emma and Brooke are very responsive and encouraging. The only thing is that they have too many turnovers on the tutors.

Mathnasium of Santa Clara Reviews

August 19, 2017

G.Y.

My daughter loves going to Mathnasium. She wants to be ahead of everyone in her class. She's developed confidence with her Math subject. Thank you Ms Emma, Ms Brooke and to all the wonderful instructors.

The Mathnasium at Rivermark, Santa Clara has a really good reward systems to motivate kids. This is really helpful since my son is not very interested in Math. The directors, Emma and Brooke are very responsive and encouraging. The only thing is that they have too many turnovers on the tutors.

This math program did help our daughter with her struggles with math. She is currently receiving an A in math. She enjoyed the program and thought the staff were very helpful. We will definitely use Mathnasuim again if needed.

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